Zoo Babies Around the World

A baby giraffe named Kamili, which means perfect in Swahili , made her debut at the Houston Zoo on Friday, Aug. 15. Kamili increases the zoo's herd to ten.
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YVES HERMAN

Two unnamed female Sri Lankan baby leopards in a zoo in Maubeuge August 12, 2014. The Sri Lankan leopards, an endangered animal species, were born on July 1.
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Four baby minipigs are pictured with their mother Marianne in their enclosure at the zoo in Hanover, central Germany. The piglets were born on July 25.
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A chimpanzee at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, holding her newly-born baby on August 10. A very experienced mother, Shiba is 33 years old and one of the most senior females in Tarongas chimpanzee group.
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In this photo released by the Roger Williams Park Zoo, a baby giant anteater clings to his mother “Corndog” at the zoo in Providence, R.I. The yet-to-be-named baby was born July 25. Anteaters, which can eat up to 35,000 termites and ants per day, are native to Central and South America. Only 5,000 are thought to remain in the wild.
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Alinga, the female koala which was born on October 19, 2013 and left her mother's pouch in May 2014, rides on her mother's back in the Zoo parc of Beauval in St Aignan on July 19, 2014. It is a rare koala birth in France.
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Kecil, a 6-month-old orangutan, is seen at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Kecil was recently brought to Brookfield to be introduced to a surrogate mother named Maggie, a 53-year-old Bornean orangutan. Kecil was born at Toledo Zoo in January, but his mother was not providing him with the proper care.
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FERDY DAMMAN

A baby elephant stands near his mother in the zoo in Emmen, Netherlands, July 20, 2014.
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Walrus mother Dyna looks at her two week old baby during their first public appearance at Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany, on July 2, 2014.
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Zoo New England

A Canada lynx kitten, one of three born May 19 at the Stone Zoo in Boston to their mother, Patty, shown during its first medical exam on June 19.
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Zoo New England

One of three Canada lynx kittens born May 19 at the Stone Zoo in Boston was weighed during its first medixal exam on June 19.
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On June 6, Makeena, the resident female white Bengal tiger at DEW Animal Kingdom & Sanctuary in Mount Vernon, Maine, gave birth to three tiger cubs, two of which were white male tigers. This is the first tiger birth in Maine. Mother and all three cubs are doing great!
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Newborn baby seal, Conchita, was morning on the eve of May 12 at the Boudewijn Seapark in Brugges. The baby seal, which was born on the eve, is most likely female and is named after Austria's bearded transvestite and winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest Conchita Wurst. In the event it does turn out to be a male, it will be named Conchito.
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Nine-day-old giraffe Bine licks the nose of its giraffe aunt Andrea at Friedrichsfelde Zoo in Berlin, Germany on May 9. The baby giraffe was born on April 30 during opening hours and numerous visitors were able to watch the birth.
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Three cheetah babies cuddle in their enclosure at the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Austria on April 30. The triplets were born on April 16 at the zoo.
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TIM BRAKEMEIER

The two young Young Palawan Leopard cats called Ilian and Taytay sit in their enclosure at zoo Tierpark Berlin in Berlin, Germany on April 29.
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MAJA HITIJ

Brown bear Mascha and her cubs peek out a cave at Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg, Germany, April 11. The zoo performed the stocktaking later that day.
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A ring-tailed lemur carries her twins through their enclosure at the zoo in Eberswalde, eastern Germany, on March 24. In the wild, ring-tailed lemurs are endemic to Madagascar.
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Two meerkat cubs cuddle between adult animals in their outdoor enclosure at the zoo in Erfurt, Germany on March 19. Three meerkat babies were born on February 21 at the zoo.
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A two-week-old critically endangered Oryx calf named Rolih is seen with its mother at television presenter Anna Ryder Richardson's zoo near Tenby, West Wales March 18.
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This photo taken March 17 shows polar bear Giovanna and her twins in the outdoor enclosure of the zoo Hellabrunn in Munich, Germany. The polar bear twins were born two weeks before.
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Three-month baby kangaroo watches from the pouch of its mother at the zoo in Zlin, eastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on March 4.
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A three-week-old elephant stands by its mother Vishesh in Ostrava's zoo, North Moravia, Czech Republic, on February 26.. The elephant is fed with artificial milk.
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Gray langur mother Sally holds her baby in its enclosure in Berlin's Zoo on February 21 in Berlin. Gray langurs live in a community in which a single male lives together with several females and their offsprings.
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A five-month-old still nameless bear explores its enclosure with its mother Huanca on February 12 at the zoo in Duisburg, Germany.
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The Sumatra Orang-Utan Matra breastfeeds her one week old baby in the enclosure at the zoo Hellabrunn in Munich, southern Germany on February 7. The little Orang-Utan baby was born in the zoo on January 31.
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Newborn white lion cubs, which were born between January 28 and 29, lie in a private zoo in Borysew near Lodz, central Poland February 1.
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A one-year-old gorilla named Gladys with an adult female named M'Linzi ate a birthday cake made for Gladys at the Cincinnati Zoo on Jan. 29. The cake was made up of two layers of rice, raisin, banana, sweet potato, and biscuits, topped with pureed banana and sweet potato, and decorated with a variety of fruit, including pomegranates, lemons and grapes. Gladys, born at a zoo in Texas and rejected by her birth mother, was raised at the Cincinnati Zoo by humans who acted as surrogates until M'Linzi accepted her.
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Zoo New England

The Franklin Park Zoo asked for a hippo this Christmas, and Santa delivered.

The young pygmy hippo, named Inocencio, will turn 2 years old Saturday and weighs 293 pounds, the zoo said. He arrived as a gift from the Parque Zoologico Buin Zoo in Chile, arriving in the United States early Friday morning, the Franklin Park Zoo announced Dec. 23. Read moreNext

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A male Grevy zebra foal, born at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, is in good health and will be on exhibit in the near future, the zoo announced. The zoo began a naming poll on its Facebook page for the young foal, allowing the public to vote on their favorite name.
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In this image from video taken Sept. 22 and made available by the London Zoo on Oct. 1, is the first tiger cub to be born at the zoo in 17 years. After a pregnancy lasting approximately 105 days and a six-minute labor, five-year-old Sumatran tiger Melati gave birth to a single cub. Zoo keepers kept a careful eye on the first-time mum through hidden cameras installed to keep watch without disturbing her.
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Researchers placed new-born panda cubs on a crib during a press conference at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province. Fourteen giant panda cubs born in 2013 were presented to the public at the press conference, during which the research base introduced the global breeding situation of giant pandas this year.
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Kit, a 6-week-old baby northern fur seal, is now on regular exhibit to the public at the seal pool at the New England Aquarium. Kit is on exhibit every day, but not all day, as she is still young and can get in some trouble with the adolescent female sea lions also at the pool. “She has been introduced to them and gets on well with them,” said Tony LaCasse, spokesman for the aquarium. “But they can all be a little rambunctious, and she’s little, so we don’t have her out there all day.” Kit, who was born at 8 pounds and now weighs 18 pounds, has spent the past few weeks nursing with her mother, Ursula, in a private pool.Next

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Moraima Voyer of Leominster was the winner in our recent "Name the baby Monkeys" contest with the Stone Zoo. The names chosen for the baby colobus monkeys were Mianzi and Jambo.
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A three-week old black panther cub at the zoo of Bad Pyrmont, Germany. The young animal is to live together with its mother in an enclosure for the next five weeks, and then live alone.
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A few-hour-old baby Asian elephant stood near its mother "La Belle" and its grandmother "La petite" at the Ramat Gan Safari, aka the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan, on Aug. 2. According to a spokesperson of the zoo the yet-unnamed baby elephant is most likely female.
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Mike Diskin

Visitors to Franklin Park Zoo will notice some new faces with the two warthogs that recently made their exhibit debut in their new exhibit next to Serengeti Crossing. The young warthogs, two sisters aged 14 months, are named Alani and Kanunu. They have been exploring their expansive new exhibit.

“We are thrilled to once again exhibit warthogs at Franklin Park Zoo,” said John Linehan, Zoo New England President and CEO. “These young, active warthogs are sure delight visitors of all ages as they’re fascinating to watch. Thematically, they are the perfect addition to the Serengeti Crossing exhibit space which features savannah animals including wildebeests, Grant’s zebras and ostriches.”
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The female snow leopard 'Milla' licked her baby at the Zoo de Servion, in Servion, Switzerland on July 11.
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A newborn Southern pudu, native to Chile and Argentina and a member of the world's smallest deer species, was born at the Queens Zoo last month in New York. The doe weighed 1 pound at birth.
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Tiombe, a mother lioness, lies with her three cubs at the Monarto Zoo in Adelaide, Australia. The three cubs, born on April 24, made their public debut at the zoo on July 8.
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A new born baby sea lion rests on his mother during a rainy day at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on July 3.
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A mother sea lion is seen giving her new born a kiss at Marineland, an animal exhibition park, in Antibes, France, on June 28.
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Ilnar Salakhiev

Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, carries her one-month old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo in Russia. The cub's father is a lion, Sam.
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PETER STEFFEN

Baby Makena, all of three months old, stood next to her mother, Uzuri, at their outdoor enclosure of the Serengeti Park wildlife park in Hodenhagen, central Germany. Makena was born at the park on March 7.
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JOANNA SCHEFFEL

A Javan leopard baby sat on a trunk during its presentation to the press on June 7 at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin.
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Wyn Hall

This image provided by the Norfolk Zoo shows a baby giraffe born at the zoo June 6 in Norfolk, Va. At birth, the calf weighed in at 150 pounds.
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LAURENT GILLIERON

Two one-month old baby wolves cuddled up as they took a nap at a zoo in Switzerland.
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A baby monkey, a lion cub and tiger cubs played at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park in Shenyang, Liaoning Province on May 1.
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Twin ring-tail lemurs were born at the Franklin Park Zoo this month. The babies, whose gender is not yet known, joined eight other lemurs at the zoo. All 10 can be seen in the Tropical Forest exhibit. Natives of Madagascar, ring-tailed lemurs are active during the day, the zoo said, and inhabit Madagascar’s dry bush, scrublands, and closed canopy forests.
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A two-week-old elephant girl hid behind the trunk of her mother, Khaing Hnin Hnin, at the zoo in Hannover, Germany on March 26.
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Baby river otter Molalla, or "Mo" for short, was weighed at the Oregon Zoo on March 15 in Portland, Ore. Molalla weighed about 2 1/2 pounds. They try to weigh the river otter when they can but they have to be fast and sneaky. When the mother leaves to go take a dip in the water they quickly shut the door and take Mo out to get his weight and then quickly put him back in the nest.
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A Thai mother and her child sat next to a three-year-old orangutan baby to pose for their souvenir photo at a private zoo in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Nemo, a baby zebra born during the winter storm of the same name, was born on February 9th at the Franklin Park Zoo. He is pictured with his mother, Cheyenne.